Lesser knoller
Lesser Knoller (born December 30, 1860 in Brätz near Posen ; died October 16, 1931 in Hanover ) was a German seminary director, religion teacher, rabbi and non-fiction author .
Life
Lesser Knoller studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau , before he initially accepted the position of assistant teacher and religion teacher in the same city in 1884. Around a decade later, in 1894, he took over the management of the Jewish teachers' seminar in Hanover until 1914, the year the First World War began .
Meanwhile in the Wilh. Riemschneider, for example, had the annual report on religious schools I and II of the synagogue community and on Jewish religious instruction at the royal and municipal higher boys' schools in Hanover reproduced (see the section on Writings (selection) ).
Lesser Knoller later worked as a religion teacher at various high schools . In addition, he was actively involved in Jewish community life and was particularly involved in education.
The Knollers were friends with the family of the later Holocaust survivors Ruth Gutmann and Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann , whose father Samuel Herskovits (born March 3, 1881 in Felsoszük) initially worked as an assistant clerk in the Jewish community of Hanover after his training as a rabbi from 1909 would have.
Lesser Knoller died on October 16, 1931 in a fatal accident with a Hanoverian tram on a busy street. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede .
Fonts (selection)
- Optionally also downloadable as a PDF document from the pages of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main :
- The problem of free will in the older Jewish religious philosophy , Breslau: Koebner, 1884
- Concise guide for grammatical instruction in the Hebrew language (partly in Hebrew script), Breslau: Verlag von Wilhem Jacobsohn & Co., 1890
- 9th revised edition, Frankfurt am Main: F. Kaufmann, 1925
- Annual report on religious schools I and II of the synagogue community and on Jewish religious instruction at the royal and municipal higher boys' schools in Hanover , in it: Mendel Zuckermann : On the administrative history of the Hanoverian land rabbinate , Hanover: Riemschneider, 1910
- In memory of our beloved mother, Professor Rosalie Frensdorff geb. Berend, died in Hanover on June 9, 5660-6. May 1900. [Words of Memory] , 1900
- with Selig Gronemann : ark, table and candlestick. sermon
literature
- Guido Kisch (Ed.): The Breslau seminar. Jewish-theological seminar (Fraenckelscher Foundation) in Breslau. 1854-1938. Memorandum , secondary title: The Breslau Seminary , Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1963, p. 423.
- Hans Chanoch Meyer (Ed.), Heinemann Stern : Why do they actually hate us? Jewish life between the wars. Memories , edited and commented by Hans Chanoch Meyer, Düsseldorf: Droste, 1970, p. 322.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Compare the location and the inscription on the rabbi's tomb
- ↑ a b c d Joseph Walk : Knoller, Lesser. In: ders. (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 198 online via Google books .
- ↑ Compare, for example, the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b Ruth Gutmann: A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah , with a forword by Kenneth Waltzer, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press: 35487-0380, 2013, page 8, 49, online by Google books
- ^ A b Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann: Emigration not possible for the time being. The history of the Herskovits family from Hanover , edited, translated and commented by Bernhard Strebel , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89244-507-9 , pp. 33, 247 and others; online through google books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knoller, Lesser |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German seminar director, religion teacher, rabbi and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brätz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1931 |
| Place of death | Hanover |